Opportunities to Involve Teachers in DataDriven DecisionMaking

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Opportunities to Involve Teachers in Data-Driven
Decision-Making
Jeffrey C. Wayman Center for Social Organization
of Schools Johns Hopkins University jwayman_at_csos.j
hu.edu
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The New Buzzword Data Use

• Accountability
• No Child Left Behind
• Teachers???

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Research

• School effects research asserts data is crucial
  for informed school improvement.
• Data use helps teachers with informed reflection
  and self-efficacy.
• Schools have an abundance of student data.

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Then
Why isnt data use more common?
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The Data Motel
School databases often resemble a Roach
Motel Data go in, but they dont come out
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Immediate Obstacles

• Access
• Time

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Resources Software for Student Data Analysis

• Wayman, Stringfield, Yakimowski (2004),
  available at
• www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/techReports/Report67.pdf
  
• Our data use website
• www.csos.jhu.edu/systemics/datause.htm

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Common Aspects of Data Analysis Software

• Data Warehouse
• Web-accessible
• Easy to use little or no training
• Pre-formatted reports
• Ad-hoc queries

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Query Tool SchoolNet
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Query Tool Ease-e by TetraData
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Student Report SAMS
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Student Report SAMS
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Student Report Concert Inform
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Challenges

• Professional Development
• Privacy
• Hardware/Teacher Connectivity
• Cost

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Summary

• There is software available to enable easy use of
  student data.
• NCLB and other upward reporting.
• Go deeper! Involve teachers.
• Greatest impact may be in how learning
  interactions are improved.